Example sentences of "who had [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody ever brought the matter up with Eve ; and as for Mossy Rooney , who had replaced some of the window frames and the guttering , it would have been pointless asking him for information . |
| 2 | The Section took over this work from the Treasury ( who had made some embarrassing errors in their calculation ) and submitted detailed proposals for post-war full employment to a Cabinet committee chaired by Anderson in May 1943 . |
| 3 | Weaver and his colleagues ( 1985 ) found that residents most able to come to terms with admission were those who had exercised some degree of control or choice in entering residential care . |
| 4 | A lawyer , Jorge Cartagena , who had represented some of the Sendero leaders , claimed that more than 150 people had still to be accounted for . |
| 5 | Though I was a student of literature and , I believe , a reasonably good teacher , and loved my work , and though I was , moreover , a serious poet who had gained some small recognition in circles even outside my own University , my writing life was not confined to poems and articles , or even lectures . |
| 6 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 7 | When these things did n't work , he got her fixed up with a particularly incompetent agent who had ruined some of his friends ' contracts through laziness . |
| 8 | The Poem was occasioned by her happening to hear that a Gentleman who had seen some of her Poems , wanted to know what her Person was |
| 9 | ‘ I really just wanted to see somebody who had done some heinous crimes and find out if there was anything different about him that would throw light on demon possession , that type of thing , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Public concern was also heightened on Sept. 29 by an announcement that the prosecuting authorities were ending their investigation into the cases of 12 other politicians , none of whom was named , who had received some of the Sagawa Kyubin money originally given to Kanemaru . |
| 11 | In their study of the civic culture , Almond and Verba found that there were differences in attitude toward government between those with different levels of education , and between those who had received some formal education and those who had received none . |
| 12 | He offered to set Jesus free instead of a man called Barabbas , a nationalist who had led some minor revolt against the Romans . |
| 13 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 14 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 15 | Both the Blacks and the Whites interviewed contained several people who had had some unpleasant experience of the police , though this only occasionally ( for the Blacks ) included a racial element . |
| 16 | I was trying to pick up youngish artists who had had some recognition like Patrick Hughes . |
| 17 | Another example was Charles Robertson , chief accountant in charge of taxation at the Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance Company , who had reported some unusual transactions to the Inland Revenue for which the company had to pay £1.6 million in back taxes . |
| 18 | Part of this negative image may be attributed to the general British dislike of South Asians who had acquired some knowledge of English and who followed some Western customs , but who had not fully assimilated the values of an English gentleman . |
| 19 | Bassett , the plaintiff , who had lived in New Zealand for over twenty years , claimed to be the heir-at-law of an intestate who had died some ten years before the claim . |
| 20 | As usual the Dinner was used as an opportunity to say thank you to those from outside Convocation who had discharged some service . |
| 21 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 22 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 23 | Sylvia Hayes , an artist who had spent some time painting in Orkney , came from Oxford to show her support for the four families . |
| 24 | ‘ I can help up here , ’ said Carrie , who had caught some of Seb 's contagious eagerness . |
| 25 | At the year end in 1927 , a surplus of £281 was welcomed ‘ with gratification ’ , and attributed in a large measure to the Secretary , Lance Henly , who had introduced some innovations including a Bankers Order for subscriptions . |
| 26 | Her father was a life peer who had held some sort of office under a Labour government . |
| 27 | I fell through the door with Marius and immediately started talking to a former member of the British Parachute Regiment who had known some friends of mine . |
| 28 | Both were headed by Prof. R.B. Le Page , who had produced some of the first linguistic studies of Jamaican Creole about twenty years previously ( Le Page 1961 ; Le Page and De Camp 1960 ; Cassidy and Le Page 1980 , originally published 1967 ) . |
| 29 | Friends then , the three of us — me sitting in the back of the old Countryman as it rattled along , Edward at the wheel singing Verdi as though he 'd just found the key to the Hermetic Mystery if not that of the aria he 'd chosen , while Laura , who had taken some persuading , groaned and laughed beside him . |
| 30 | A Sikh girl from Newham , who had bought some clothes with her own money told me how her family had reacted . |